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The rewards are okay, but I don't know that they will justify any interest in slogging through ground combat missions. I'm not terrible at them, but I dislike them to the point where I only do them when they're part of an episode / story arc. I get that folks like ground combat, no problem. I'm not one of them. If it is…
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I agree. With what I saw on Tribble, the ratio of blues from blue particle traces is still a bit low. Blue particle traces are already rare. Making the blue mats that come from them uncommon or rare in their availability makes the blue mats very rare or ultra rare and that is not logical.
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I generally try to avoid political posts. Indeed, this one smacks of politics - both from forum users as well as those internal to Cryptic/Perfect World. That said, your post is not going to serve as a lightning rod for anything good - primarily for the reason it is mean spirited, uncivil, and precisely the sort of rant…
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One of the truths about determining if you 'need' to make performance improvements is knowing how to diagnose problems, determining what your current status is, and seeing just how what changes you make have an impact on the system. So, this will cover a few useful and, to a greater extent, lesser known utilities. (If…
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If your Linux distribution gives you the option to specify layout, keep in mind a few considerations:* How much redundancy do I need? * How much space do I need? * How important is speed vs. redundancy? * What is my primary use? (Gaming, development, just web browsing)* Development / databases - I'm not going to cover…
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In the [url=""]Disk Access[/url] post, I mentioned very basic numbers on how to improve the readahead buffer size for your disks (whether through LVM, mdadm, or direct file system access). Now, I'm going to go into this a bit further to explain how to derive some of the numbers. Again, if you find a different value works…
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There are three ways of approaching video settings in game. You can either start with the defaults and adjust, or you can set to maximum and pare down, or you start with the minimum settings and go upward until you find a happy spot for your settings. My personal preference is go with "Start with the default" options and…
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Factors to consider: When given a choice by your distribution, choose the 32 bit version of wine for STO. It may be counter-intuitive to think so on a 64 bit OS. Indeed, my system is 64 bit. Unfortunately, however, there's a few reasons why you should choose the 32 bit version where possible. STO currently (and most games)…
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One of the lesser tried performance tweaks involves the kernel (and this is different from the kernel parameters section for a good reason). In fact, using a different kernel entirely might be able to help you. Check with your distribution to see if it supports the ck kernel. (Gentoo users, ck-sources has the ~amd64…
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One easy way to improve your game loading is to cache constant reads or, more accurately, predictable reads to your harddrive. Some distributions do this nicely and some make one's eyes cross trying to determine why the setup is the way it is. * Disk Access* Readahead - As the name implies, this is for a buffer that reads…
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There are a few 'hidden' settings within the kernel that can improve your performance. Especially since they seem to be somewhat undocumented unless you know where to look. Note also: Some distributions have custom tailored and patched kernels. They will offer options that the default and generic Linux kernel may not have…
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After poking around on tribble, I think I can offer some constructive feedback. * Converting old materials to new crafting system materials is cumbersome, tedious, and takes forever. This could be better done through an auto-conversion (as there's no choice in how the materials convert, there's no point in having someone…
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Looks like it's working again.
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It's even worse than that. I checked my account status (as I have a lifetime account) and it says zero days active and my subscription is inactive. I know better, but it seems that this is related to the authentication server thinking accounts are inactive (thus why people can't login).